Auction 3 Rare And Important Items
Oct 26, 2020
United kingdom
 105 Eade road, Building A, 2nd floor unit 4, London N4 1TJ, England
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LOT 154:

TALMUD BAVLI MASSECHTA CHULIN BELONGING TO RABBI SHMUEL HELLER, RABBI OF TZEFAS, WITH 20 SIGNATURES OF ...

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TALMUD BAVLI MASSECHTA CHULIN BELONGING TO RABBI SHMUEL HELLER, RABBI OF TZEFAS, WITH 20 SIGNATURES OF HIS.


A Talmud volume used for Torah study by the great Rabbi Shmuel Heller, Rabbi of Tzefas, whose Torah diligence and saintliness were legendary.

Rabbi Shmuel Heller, born in Zlotchov, descendant of the Tosfos Yomtov, close adherent of the Chernobil chassidic dynasty. He arrived in Tzfas with his parents, gradually becoming close to the community leadership, particularly after the passing of his Rebbe, Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avrutch – the Bas Ayin, in 1840. A highly respected rabbinical leader of the chassidic community deeply involved in its contacts with Eastern Europe, with the local Sephardic community and its rabbis, with the Ottoman authorities and with the local Arab population.

147, 191, 108, 48 pp. 14.5 x 22 cm. Condition generally good. Original binding.